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  1. Box and needles used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Box and needles used by Alice Redlich while she served as a nurse at the displaced persons camp established in the former concentration camp in Germany after the war. The British Army liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, and it then became a DP camp. Alice and her family were German Jews living in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship. In 1938, 18 year old Alice left for England to continue her nurse's training. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, she left for the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp to care for children and yo...

  2. Glass and silver keepsake box used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn523782
    • English
    • 1938-1949
    • a: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) b: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm)

    Small glass box with a silver lid box owned by Alice Redlich while she served as a nurse at the displaced persons camp established in the former concentration camp in Germany after the war. The British army liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, and it then became a DP camp. Alice and her family were German Jews living in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship. In 1938, 18 year old Alice left for England to continue her nurse's training. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, she left for the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp to c...

  3. Richard Rubenstein

    Richard Rubenstein, an American professor, relates his position on stateless people, bureaucracy, and the role of churches during the Holocaust. FILM ID 3871 -- Camera Rolls TALA 1-5 Allies CR1 Professor Rubenstein begins the interview by describing the beauty of Wakulla Springs, near Tallahassee, Florida, where the interview will take place. Lanzmann asks if it is a fitting place to talk about the Holocaust, to which Rubenstein answers it is as fitting as any other place, as the Holocaust was so unnatural and destructive. 01:02:22 CR2 He implies the similarities of the sanctuary in which t...

  4. Manfred and Anita Lamm Gans family collection

    1. Manfred and Anita Lamm Gans family collection

    Correspondence between Manfred and Anita Gans.

  5. Leo Frobenius

    1. Biographical press cuttings collection (1945-1970s)

    "Leo Viktor Frobenius (29 June 1873 – 9 August 1938) was an ethnologist and archaeologist and a major figure in German ethnography."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 26.7.2016). "Carl August Hugo Froelich (5 September 1875 – 12 February 1953) was a German film pioneer and film director. He was born and died in Berlin."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 26.7.2016). "Gustav Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis....

  6. Gerald Schwab papers

    1. Gerald Schwab collection

    The Gerald Schwab papers document Schwab’s work for the International Military Tribunal following World War II; research for his books The Day the Holocaust Began: The Odyssey of Herschel Grynszpan and OSS Agents in Hitler's Heartland: Destination Innsbruck; his efforts to receive restitutions for Holocaust-era losses; biographical, genealogical, and photographic materials documenting Schwab and his family; and audiovisual and electronic records documenting Schwab’s interests in Holocaust-era topics. International Military Tribunal records include trial documents, photographs and illustrati...

  7. Irene and Henry Frank papers

    1. Irene and Henry Frank family collection

    The Irene and Henry Frank papers include correspondence, biographical materials, photographs, and Theresienstadt and Deggendorf materials documenting Irene and Henry Frank from Berlin, their survival in concentration and labor camps during the Holocaust, and their immigration to the United States in 1946. Correspondence primarily consists of messages from Henry’s mother, Anna, in Theresienstadt that were delivered to Henry at the Wulkow labor camp when supplies were delivered from Theresienstadt to Wulkow. Additional messages from Theresienstadt to Henry at Wulkow come from his sister, Inge...

  8. Indemnification

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Institute of Jewish Affairs

    Consists of files pertaining to restitution legislation and claims, including property claims, organized by country. The subseries concludes with nearly 25 boxes of correspondence and other materials pertaining to the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization, the United Restitution Organization, and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Box C228. Folder 10. Committee on Reparation, proceedings, 1941-1943 Box C228. Folder 11. Indemnification, Schreir, Fritz, 1942-1943, 1946 Box C228. Folder 12. Reports, decrees, news clippings on restitution, 1942-1944 Box C228. Folder 1...

  9. Set of eight lobby cards for the film “Sword in the Desert” (1949)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn692997
    • English
    • .1: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .2: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .3: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .4: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .5: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .6: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .7: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .8: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)

    Set of eight lobby cards for the film, “Sword in the Desert,” released in the United States in August 1949. Lobby cards are promotional materials placed in theater lobby windows to highlight specific movie scenes, rather than the broader themes often depicted on posters. The film follows an American cargo ship captain who finds himself stranded in a Jewish settlement after smuggling a group of illegal Jewish immigrants to British-controlled Palestine. Initially self-interested and unsympathetic to the refugees, the captain has a change in heart after he is captured, imprisoned, and later es...

  10. Set of twelve scene stills for the film “Sword in the Desert” (1949)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn693001
    • English
    • .1: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) .2: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .3: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .4: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .5: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .6: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) .7: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .8: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .9: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) .10: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) .11: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .12: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)

    Set of twelve scene stills for the film, “Sword in the Desert,” released in the United States in August 1949. Scene stills are photographs taken on or off the set of a motion picture and are then used as marketing and advertising tools. The film follows an American cargo ship captain who finds himself stranded in a Jewish settlement after smuggling a group of illegal Jewish immigrants to British-controlled Palestine. Initially self-interested and unsympathetic to the refugees, the captain has a change in heart after he is captured, imprisoned, and later escapes with them. “Sword in the Dese...

  11. Office Files

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Political Department/Department of International Affairs

    A major component of this subseries is correspondence with the WJC's British section and its Political Department director, Alexander L. Easterman. This subseries also contains a large section of files on the American Jewish Congress, the bulk of which covers the years 1950-1960. Box B47. Folder 1. Correspondence, 1947 Box B47. Folder 2. Correspondence, 1952, 1957-1958 Box B47. Folder 3. Correspondence, 1960-1967 Box B47. Folder 4. Correspondence, 1970-1975 Box B47. Folder 5. Advisory Council, Bronfman, Samuel, Germany, 1966 Box B47. Folder 6. Executive Committee, American branch, minutes, ...

  12. Nehemiah Robinson

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Institute of Jewish Affairs
    3. Executive Files and Correspondence

    Included in the Nehemiah Robinson papers, beginning in box 31, are files pertaining to war crimes and restitution, as well as files pertaining to special inquiries made in reference to missing persons and claims. Box C16. Folder 7. Correspondence, 1945-1946 Box C16. Folder 8. Correspondence, 1946-1948 Box C16. Folder 9. Correspondence, 1949 January-February Box C16. Folder 10. Correspondence, 1949 March-April Box C16. Folder 11. Correspondence, 1949 May-June Box C17. Folder 1. Correspondence, 1949 July-August Box C17. Folder 2. Correspondence, 1949 September-October Box C17. Folder 3. Corre...

  13. Medical field sterilizer kit used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn523800
    • English
    • 1938-1949
    • a: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm) | Depth: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) b: Height: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Width: 7.625 inches (19.368 cm) | Depth: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) c: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 6.875 inches (17.463 cm) | Depth: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) d: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Width: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) e: Height: 4.625 inches (11.748 cm) | Width: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) f: Height: 4.625 inches (11.748 cm) | Width: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) g: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Depth: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm)

    Medical field sterilizer kit with container and strainer tray, ethanol burner, instruments, a boxed set of 2 bottles of Lobelin used by Alice Redlich while she served as a nurse at the Bergen Belsen displaced persons camp established in the former concentration camp in Germany after the war. The British army liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, and it then became a DP camp. Alice volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, she left for Bergen-Belsen DP camp to care for children and young women. Before the war, Alice lived with her parents in Berlin,...

  14. Jewish Relief Unit Star of David pin worn by a German Jewish nurse working in a DP camp

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Jewish Relief Unit pin worn by Alice Redlich while she served as a nurse at the displaced persons camp established in the former concentration camp in Germany after the war. The British army liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, and it then became a DP camp. Alice and her family were German Jews living in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship. In 1938, 18 year old Alice left for England to continue her nurse's training. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, she left for the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp to care for children...

  15. Wedding dress with ruffle made for the marriage of 2 German Jewish DP camp aid workers

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    White, full skirted gown worn by Alice Redlich, 28, at her wedding to Hans Finke, 28, at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp on June 20, 1948. The dress was made by her sister-in-law Ursula, a seamstress. She made the dress in Berlin and brought it to Bergen Belsen during a visit to friends in Bavaria. The British Army liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, and it became a DP camp. Hans and Alice were aid workers when they met and married. Alice and her family were German Jews living in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship with its aggressive anti-Jewish policies. Alice ...

  16. Yellow sport short listing concentration camps where the owner was imprisoned

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Yellow polo shirt that belonged to Hans Finke, a concentration camp survivor who became an aid worker after the war. The shirt was made for a survivor's reunion Hans attended after the war. Hans, his parents and his sister Ursula lived in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933 with its aggressive anti-Jewish policies. Jews were forced out of their jobs and their businesses were confiscated. In February 1943, Hans, 23, an electrician by trade, was a forced laborer for Siemens when he was hospitalized with appendicitis. On February 29, his parents were rounded up and deported...

  17. Wooden comb and handmade paper case given to a prisoner by a friend in Kaiserwald concentration camp

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn47061
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)

    Wooden comb and paper case given to 21 year old Esther Dykman by a friend on December 27, 1944, when they were slave laborers in an AEG Factory in Kaiserwald concentration camp in Riga, Latvia. The friend found the comb on the side of the road and made the holder from materials taken from the factory where she and Esther worked. Germany invaded Soviet controlled Poland in June 21,1941, and three days later occupied Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) where Esther lived with her parents and 8 year old sister Cyla. By July, they enacted policies to persecute the Jews. German mobile killing units, aide...

  18. Klapholz and Schlesinger family papers

    Contains birth certificates, passports and identification cards bearing photographs, and marriage certificates pertaining to Erna Meier (later Schlesinger Summerfield) and her daughter Irene Schlesinger's (later Woods Hofstein) lives in Germany and their immigration to the United States in 1939.

  19. Ney and Grundmann families papers

    1. Ney and Grundmann families collection

    The Ney and Grundmann families collection consists of correspondence, documents, autograph books, printed material, audiovisual recordings, and other related materials, documenting the history of the families of Herbert Ney (Neu), originally of Munich, Germany, and his wife, Hannelore (née Grundmann), originally of Essen, Germany, relating to their emigration from Germany due to anti-Semitic persecution, as well as documenting their lives in pre-Holocaust era Germany, and following their immigration to the United States. The Biographical series includes identification, education, immigratio...

  20. Schwarz and Rosenwald families papers

    1. Schwarz and Rosenwald families collection

    The Schwarz and Rosenwald families papers consist of correspondence, immigration and identification documents, financial records, news clippings, photographs, printed materials, and other related materials, which primarily document the experiences of the family of Richard and Bertha (née Rosenwald) Schwarz, of Hannover, Germany, who fled that country in 1936 due to anti-Semitic persecution, and were able to do so with the assistance of the family of Julius Rosenwald, the co-founder of the Sears, Roebuck and Company, who were distant American relatives of theirs. The collection includes corr...